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We need a new one: "Where someone is using a vibe-coded internal tool made by the creative department that keeps needing bug fixes, there's a start up waiting to happen."

This project is not clever, interesting, insightful, or beneficial to humanity in any way, save to remind us of what world we are slowly creating by our continued insistence that AI is a good thing.

Exactly. People are getting so excited that all this stuff is possible, and forgetting that we are burning through innumerable finite resources just to prove something is possible.

They were too concerned with whether or not they could, they never stopped to think if they should.

I can't believe that in the face of all the other problems facing humanity, we are allowing any amount of resources to be spent on this. I cannot even see this justifiable under the guise of entertainment. It is beneath our human dignity to read this slop, and to continue tolerating these kinds of projects as "innovation" or "pushing the AI frontier" is disingenuous at best, and existentially fatal at worst.

This is really cringe

Do they have microphones inside the car? How do you know? That "feeling" of privacy probably encourages people to talk more openly, which if there are microphones inside...

Im also coming to the conclusion that video game consoles (and smartphones, and ipads,...) are not for children.

The phrase "dog whistle" is also itself a dog whistle that signals where you stand on discussing particular issues in the open.

The proof is that humans do it all the time and that you do it inside your head as well. People need to stop with this absurd level of rampant skepticism that makes them doubt their own basic functions.

Companies more likely to want to save money on labor costs (employing many h1bs) are also likely to want to save money on Tooling costs, by using safe options like MSFT stuff, rather than finding better tools.

Also yes, due to availability and various other reasons, H1bs, particularly from India, seem more likely to use a MSFT stack.

Has anybody tried "driving" for one of these companies using GPS spoofing? You could fake the location of your phone. I suppose it'd only work a few times before the number of reports gets you banned, but I wonder whether on a laragr enough (and automated) scale it would be profitable for scammers

Artificial insulin is akin to medicine, potions, etc, I don't think anybody would consider this grotesque at any point in time

The right woman to marry is the one you're married to

Yes. People do not want to give up some finite freedoms in exchange for preserving their lineage. This is a very modern and sad problem and the source of so much angst of the middle aged. But of course, most people are too hedonistic and self absorbed to realise this.

People used to criticise Wikipedia for being bad due to being crowdsourced (at least in school they did). Now, Wikipedia looks like one of the best antidotes to LLMs.

The closest thing to minecraft in real life I have ever seen.

I wonder how much of Wikipedia has been contributed to using AI by now. Almost makes me want to keep a 2023 snapshot of Wikipedia in cold storage.

Perversely, this may make many companies no longer invest in this type of cyber security software. Which may lead to a whole host of other problems...

VPS

nobody will hand anything over

Uh, there's these things called subpoenas...

Surely this was heavily inspired by Runescape? The click to move (including cursor animation on click), camera angles and graphics, chat text colour and position etc. all give me huge Runescape (Old School Runescape) vibes.

Congrats on launching though, looks like a fun project.

So true. Black market snapshots of pre-LLM internet archives will start attracting high prices.

Keepass XC has served me well for nearly 15 years, and will continue to do so.

Wait so, the Internet Archive was not involved at all in finding the original, but since the image exists in the archive, IA have written a blog post claiming to be crucial to its discovery? Seems like taking credit for something they didn't do to be honest. They didn't even mention the Tweet in the blog post which was essential to finding the image, which makes me think they want that part overlooked.

This is why Signal needs to decentralise. There is no such thing as "leaving the EU market" if it can obtained from anywhere on the internet.

The EU has shot itself in the foot with demanding alternate app store exist, and then Signal has shot itself in the foot by not being open enough to be distributed on any app store by anybody.

The answer to these encryption laws, is to use their other laws against them. You want the iPhone to be an open platform? Great, here's a bunch of open platform chat apps that cannot be banned because they are decentralised.

Perhaps Matrix will be the future after all?

And yet no matter how easy they make ChatGPT to interact with, I cannot use it due to accuracy. Great, now I can have a voice telling me information I have no way of knowing is correct rather than just having it given to me as text.

Do any of these instructions ever get followed every single time?

Their point is that if 100% (for the sake of argument) of the population contains microplastics, and the combination of that PLUS the two genes, equals Alzheimers, then the microplastics was still a cause, it's just that in reality, given the entire population now has the first factor, the gene is what is appearing as the sole contributing factor. But that doesn't mean we can rule out other (albeit ubiquitous) environmental factors as additional contributing (or perhaps even required) causes.

I think the debate in the social and political sphere has already turned to this broader implication, but obviously for the legal challenge, X will solely be debating whether it should apply globally or not.

Yeah, that's more accurate tbh - edited.

I know this is contentious, but one factor here that lines up with the timeline you've presented is: vaccines.

Children are given far more of them than adults. People moving from developing countries to developed countries won't receive as many. But if they have kids in a developed country, their kids will get a ton.